Tales from the Borderlands
Worth it · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $11.80.
- Length
- 10.6h
- Value
- $1.89/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, ATI or NVIDIA card w/512 MB RAM, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in December 2024. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 56 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $11.80 BANGER line 13 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, King's Quest (free, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats The Walking Dead ($14.99, scores 51).
Of the 677 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 671 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
82% start to 47% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
34 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
What I didn't expect from Tales from the Borderlands was how much emotion it would have underneath all the jokes. I think Tales from the Borderlands is one of Telltale's strongest games because it understands something incredibly important: you don't need complicated gameplay to make an adventure memorable. Yes, it's funny. Sometimes ridiculously funny. But what makes the game work is that the humor is balanced with...
Favorite game in the Borderlands franchise and one of the best games and stories that came from Telltale.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Tales from the Borderlands scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/330830/tales-from-the-borderlandsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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